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Everybody Talks About the Weather...We Don't: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof - Karin Bauer (Editor), Elfriede Jelinek (Preface by), and Ulrike Meinhof
No other figure embodies revolutionary politics and radical chic quite like Ulrike Meinhof, who formed, with Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader–Meinhof Gang, notorious for its bombings and kidnappings of the wealthy in the 1970s. But in the years leading up to her leap into the fray, Meinhof was known throughout Europe as a respected journalist, who ...
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Home: Social Essays - Amiri Baraka
Home is, in effect, the ideological autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka. The two dozen essays that constitute this book were written during a five-year span--a turbulent and critical period for African Americans and whites. The Cuban Revolution, the Birmingham bombings, Robert Williams's Monroe Defense movement, the Harlem riots, the assassination of Malcolm X . . . each changed the way Jones/Ba...
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Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism Versus Creationism From Antiquity to the the Present - John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York
Finally we have a book on so-called 'intelligent design' that gets to the heart of the matter rather than devoting all its energies to a point by point refutation of that doctrine. While providing a sophisticated modern understanding of the complexities of organisms and the biological processes that have resulted in life as it has evolved, the authors of Critique of Intelligent Design never lose sight...
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Can't Stop Won't Stop - DJ Kool Herc (Introduction by) and Jeff Chang
Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop has been a generation-defining global movement. In a post–civil rights era rapidly transformed by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop gave voiceless youths a chance to address these seismic changes, and became a job-making engine and the Esperanto of youth rebellion. Hip-hop crystallized a multiracial generation's worldview, and...
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In Quest of Heaven: The Story of the Sunrise Co-operative Farm Community - Joseph J. Cohen
In 1933 a group of workers from New York, Detroit, and Chicago purchased the fourteen square mile Prarie Farm in Michigan's Saginaw Valley. This is the story of the libertarian collectivist colony known as the Sunrise Co-operative Farm Community. Written by its founder, Joseph J. Cohen, and first published by the Sunrise History Publishing Committee in 1957, In Quest of Heaven describes the growth and...
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Black History For Beginners - Susan Willmarth (Illustrator) and Denise Dennis
What is Black History? Did you know what blacks were in Cortez's crew in Mexico, with Pizarro in Peru and Alvarado in Quito...that when Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean, 30 black people were with him....that when Alarcon and Coronado conquered Mexico, black people were with them too?


Any misunderstandings between blacks and whites in today's society tend to stem from the misconceptions about bl...
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Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader - Tom Hayden
For the last fifty years, Tom Hayden has been an outspoken advocate for civil rights, social justice, environmental protection and peace. He has also been a prolific writer, documenting and exploring a profound and constant search for alternatives to the injustices of modern America.


It was Martin Luther King who first encouraged Hayden, a young writer, to cross the line from observation to direct...
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A History of U.S. Feminisms - Rory Dicker
A History of U.S. Feminisms is an introductory text that will be used as supplementary material for first-year women's studies students or as a brush-up text for more advanced students. Covering the first, second, and third waves of feminism, A History of U.S. Feminisms will provide historical context of all the major events and players since the late nineteenth century through today.

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White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son - Tim Wise
From his experiences as a white anti-racist activist and white American, Wise has crafted the first history of what it means to be part of the "majority" in America. Combining the emotion of personal stories with insights gleaned from 15 years as an educator, White Like Me examines the ways in which whites reap the benefits of "racial preferences" - whether or not they actively engage in racism. By criticall...
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Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners - Ashanti Alston (Afterword By), Lynne Stewart (Afterword By), Adolfo Perez Esquivel (Foreword by), and Matt Meyer (Editor)
Let Freedom Ring presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, People's Tribunal verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of U.S. political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard their rights and secure their freedom. In addition to an extensive section on the campaign to free death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, represented here are the radical movements t...
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